Hill Country Beer Club

Brewery Hopping
August 26, 2023

Dos Sirenos
12:30:00

Meet at Dos Sirenos at 1230 and then plan to head to Alamo after that. We can discuss a third if everyone is up to it.

Brewer Beer Vintage Score
Dos Sirenos Brewing Morrigan Irish Stout 2023 89
Dos Sirenos Brewing Athena 2023 87
Dos Sirenos Brewing Caerus Dunkel 2023 89
Kunstler Brewery Maximillian 2023 90
Kunstler Brewery Maximillian 2023
Kunstler Brewery Maximillian 2023
Kunstler Brewery Maximillian 2023
Kunstler Brewery Maximillian 2023
Dos Sirenos Brewing Iris Hazy 2023 88
Kunstler Brewery Texas Tube Float 2023 90
Dos Sirenos Brewing Zeus Juice 2023 90
Kunstler Brewery The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Marzen 2023 89
Dos Sirenos Hera DDH IPA 2023 89
Alamo Beer Company After Dark Porter 2023 89
Alamo Beer Company ShotGun Texas Juicy IPA 2023 91
Dos Sirenos Brewing Trident Tripel 2023 88
Kunstler Brewery Behind the Couch 2023 89
Dos Sirenos Brewing CC Strong Dark Ale 2023 90
Alamo Beer Company Barrel aged One Flew over the Coconut 2023 93
Dos Sirenos Brewing Morpheus - Barrel-Aged Coconut 2023 93

Who Offered: ASIAFEVER , MADMIKE, PHATMEAT, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Who Drank: ASIAFEVER, MADMIKE, PHATMEAT, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Summary

89

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Morrigan Irish Stout

Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout | 5% ABV | 29 IBU
Offered By: MADMIKE
Club/Brewer Notes:
Dark black color, roasted coffee and slight chocolate flavors come through on this beer made with Pale malt, roasted barley and chocolate malts. Served on Nitro.

87

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Athena

Witbier | 5.3% ABV | 13 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
89

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Caerus Dunkel

DunkelWeizen | 5.4% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
No description

90

Kunstler Brewery

Maximillian

American-Style | 5.5% ABV | 24 IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
See Untappd

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Kunstler Brewery

Maximillian

American-Style | 5.5% ABV | 24 IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
See Untappd

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Kunstler Brewery

Maximillian

American-Style | 5.5% ABV | 24 IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
See Untappd

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Kunstler Brewery

Maximillian

American-Style | 5.5% ABV | 24 IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
See Untappd

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Kunstler Brewery

Maximillian

American-Style | 5.5% ABV | 24 IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
See Untappd

88

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Iris Hazy

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 6.2% ABV | 19 IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
90

Kunstler Brewery

Texas Tube Float

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA)3 | 6.5% ABV | 61 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
This IPA gets its character from British and German malts. It is malt forward and balanced with just the right amount of hops. Starts off with a nose of pineapple, big malt flavor enhanced with hops that give it a citrus and stone fruit flavor. Finishes nice and dry. Tube Float is an easy drinker on a hot Texas Day.

90

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Zeus Juice

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 6.6% ABV | 62 IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Hazy IPA with trident hops. Great citrus and passion fruit on the front end with a bite at the finish.

89

Kunstler Brewery

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Marzen

German-Style Marzen | 6.8% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: MADMIKE
Club/Brewer Notes:
None

89

Dos Sirenos

Hera DDH IPA

New England IPA | 6.9% ABV | 42 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
Hera is a double dry hopped New England IPA with Galena, Sultana, Trident and Eureka hops fermented with Kveik Hornindal yeast. Lots of citrus, tangerine and pineapple notes on the hazy IPA.

89

Alamo Beer Company

After Dark Porter

Porter | 7% ABV | 60 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
An approachable American style porter with full bodied mouthful and notes of chocolate and espresso

91

Alamo Beer Company

ShotGun Texas Juicy IPA

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 7% ABV | 35 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
Prost

88

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Trident Tripel

Belgian-Style Tripel | 8.2% ABV | 26 IBU
Offered By: MADMIKE
89

Kunstler Brewery

Behind the Couch

French-Style Biere de Garde | 8.4% ABV | 32 IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Historically Bière De Garde was produced on the Belgium/France border, while Saison was produced on the Belgian side. While Belgians produced light, fresh and crispy drinks, the French produced something richer and sweeter. Belgians fermented their Saisons at warmer temps, producing spicy, crisp and peppy drinks, while the French found their yeast influence in the altbier and kölsch traditions, thus producing a libation of soft malt with some restrained sweetness. Bière De Garde was produced with a stronger alcohol content, so that it could be stored (guarded) through the summer months. My first Bière De Garde, was in collaboration with another homebrewer, Jeremy Banas a local beer historian and author. We brewed it in 2013, on a system unfamiliar to us, and let’s just say all kinds of things went wrong, producing lots of sweat, cursing, (maybe some tears) and a scorched wort. We bottled it anyway, and I literally stashed my share behind the couch, hoping I could forget the failed brew day. A year later, while drinking with friends, we tasted through everything I had on tap, and I was asked: “What else do you have?” Somehow I remembered the “behind the couch beer” and thought it would be good to at least try, maybe laugh about it, and then finally dump it. Long story short: I was almost sad that I had to share such a fine brew with anyone!

90

Dos Sirenos Brewing

CC Strong Dark Ale

Belgian Strong Ale | 9.2% ABV | 40 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
To celebrate our 200 batch of beer, we brewed this Belgian Dark Strong Ale. Made with pale malt, Munich malt and dark Belgian candy, this beer has a complex flavor profile of malt richness, raisin, plum and dark cherries

93

Alamo Beer Company

Barrel aged One Flew over the Coconut

American-Style Imperial Stout | 9.5% ABV | 60 IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
93

Dos Sirenos Brewing

Morpheus - Barrel-Aged Coconut

Imperial Milk Stout | 13.8% ABV | 60 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT